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REYNOLDS’ WATER COOLER AND FILTER. 


To the Public : 


We desire to call the attention of our readers who 
use water which is pumped and forced through wa- 
ter mains in our cities and towns to the REYNOLDS’ 
WATER COOLER AND FILTER. This manner of 
cooling and filtering water is the product of a series 
of experiments extending over a period of several 
years by Mr. Reynolds, Patentee. Many attempts 
had previously been made to filter city water, the 
great value of which had long been appreciated, how- 


ever all measures for that object so far had been 
proved to be unavailing. The great need felt by 


both the medical profession and the public in gen- 
eral for exactly such an article stimulated the inves- 
tigation of which have now resulted in such a com- 


plete success. 


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It is unnecessary to remind the medical faculty of 
the important nature of PURE WATER for drinking 
purpose, also the diseases that is caused by drinking 
melted ice. ~The unprofessional public however 
have no adequate idea of the impurities contained in 
ice that is frozen on our rivers and ponds. To tell 
them that ice is impure and is composed of animal 
and vegetable matter, and is wholly surface water fro- 
zen is the plain truth, and matter of this sort should 
not be placed in water that is used for drinking. 

Pleasé examine our circular, and should you want 
anything of this description for your office or build- 
ings, or any imformation in regard to filtering or 


cooling water, we would be happy to hear from you. 
Very respectfully, 
5, Bee VINOTD Sire O, 


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It is now generally known that the ice which is 
taken from rivers, lakes and ponds and used in drink- 
ing-water, is nothing more than surface water frozen 
and contains more or less of animal and vegetable 
matter. From the best medical authority in the 
country, two-thirds of the summer diseases are caused 
from drinking water that ice has been placed in it for 
the purpose of cooling the same. 

Look into a water tank in common use that con- 
tains water with ice in it, and you will observe in- 
stead of the water looking bright and sparkling on 
the surface as spring water, it has a froth around the 
edge of the tank and in the bottom you will see a 
sediment and other decayed matter that has come 
from the melted ice. 

All persons drinking water from a tank which 
contains ice in the water have to drink more or less 
of the decayed matter that is frozen in the ice, as 
you never heard of any one placing a piece of ice in 
a water tank and afterwards remove any of it. When 
ice is put ina tank it all melts, and is drawn off with 
the water and drank. 

Nearly all of the decayed matter in lakes and 
ponds (where the ice for drinking-water is taken ) is 


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drawn to the surface by the effect of the sun, and 
very little if any ever settles. When the freezing 
process takes place this decayed matter on the sur- 
face of the water is taken up with the frozen water 
mor. ice,as.it is, then called. di any one :doubts this 
theory, let them take a piece of ice and melt it and 
then expose the melted ice water to the sun in the 
month of July or August fora few hours, and they 
will be convinced that melted ice water is composed 
of decayed animal and vegetable matter and is not 
fit to drink. 

You will see by looking at the drawings and cuts, 
by using Reynolds’ Water Cooler and Filter, the wa- 
ter is cooled without placing any ice in the drinking 
water or drinking any melted tice. 


FILTERED ; WATER. 

Water that is pumped and forced through city 
mains from lakes and rivers should be filtered before 
using for drinking or cooking purposes. When wa- 
ter is under a forced pressure it is impossible to sep- 
arate the sediment from the clear water without 
filtering, as the pumping pressure carries sediment 
and water at the same time, and where the water 
pressure is held up to 80 or go lbs. to the square inch, 


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it is impossible to keep the valves and ° ‘faucets 
from leaking as the sand is constantly being forced 
against them and soon cuts them out. 

With Reynolds’ Water Cooler and Filter the sedi- 
ment is separated from the water before the water 
enters the cooling chamber, thus the ice never comes 
in contact with the drinking water. As the ice 
melts in the upper part of the cooling chamber it is 
conveyed off through a pipe from the center of the 
tank. Wedo not have our water chamber placed 
in a tank under water, or keep a body of stagnant 
water round or about the water chamber, as we 
find it impossible to keep a water tank so made 
clean and sweet, as water that is confined will be- 
come stagnant and putrid. 


DESCRIPTION OF THE ‘FILTER. 


The filter pipe is constructed so that the opening 
where the water enters the water chamber is smaller 
so that when the water is forced up and through the 
filtering matter it compresses the sand and charcoal, 
whereby, if the opening was larger at this point than 
at the feed pipe the water instead of passing 
through compressed matter would only pass through 
a loose packing of charcoal and sand or other mat- 


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ter. We do not use any cotton or woolen cloth for 
packing this Filter, as it is only a matter of a little 
time when the sand will cut it out, and by constant 
exposure to dampness it at last effects injuriously the 
quality of the water, it will also retain to a great ex- 
tent the sediment and other matter that should pass 
off through the mud valve. 

We only use in our Filter hard charcoal, fine sand 
and a cap composed of hard crystals and asbestos 
fiber. 

With the Reynolds’ Water Cooler and Filter the 
ice taken from a swamp is just as good for cooling 
drinking-water as the so-called pure lake ice. 

The upper part of thzs tank is shaped like a bowl 
for holding the ice or other cooling matter, (see cut 
on page g) through the bottom of this ice bowl pass- 
ing down through the Filter is the waste water pipe. 
and as.fast as the ice melts it passes off through this 
pipe to the sewer or drains of the building. 

Our water chamber or tank is made of cast iron, 
properly coated on the inside to prevent rust, and 
strong enough to stand the pressure of any water 
works in the country. 


DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE FILTER. 


Open the lower valve (or mud valve) and let the 
water run five minutes every morning, that cleanses 


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the Filter of all the sediment that has accumulated 
the previous day. Place the ice in the bowl or the 
upper part of the water chamber in a woolen cloth, 
and you will have cool filtered water to drink with- 
out drinking melted ice. 


Vee eRe COOLED-BY , COLD: AIR. 


We have a way of placing these water coolers in 
large public buildings, factories and work shops, and 
cool the water in every room by a blast of air from 
a power fan. In this way water for drinking pur- 
pose can be kept cool without placing ice in the 
bowl of the water chamber, as we cool the air in the 
basement of the building and force the same through 
pipes to each water tank. In large buildings that 
require a number of drinking places for workmen we 
find it is a saving of time and ice, the saving in ice 
alone the first season (say nothing about the expense 
of a man to carry ice into each room of a large work 
shop every morning) will more than pay for placing 
the air pipes through the building, and in the ex- 
treme hot days of July and August the air pipes can 
be made to help to cool the building without extra 
expense. This arrangement is shown in cut on cover. 


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DESCRIPTION. 


In the basement of the building we place what is 
known as the Reynolds’ Water Cooler and Filter, this 
is composed of a coil of pipe placed inside of a tank, 
said coil is connected to and is the air pipe from the 
fan. This air pipe which is inside of the tank is 
cooled with water and ice. In the centre of this 
coil:is a stand pipe connected to the water works 
and contains the filtering matter that the water has 
to pass through before it can get into the water pipes 
in the building. Up and through each room that 
the water pipe is placed we also connect this water 
tank to the water pipe. We place a cap over the 
ice bowl and connect through this cap the cold air 
pipe, thus leading the cold air direct into the upper 
part of the water chamber, and by keeping a current 
of cold air in the bowl of the water chamber, the 
water is cooled without the loss of time and expense 
of filling each water tank every morning. 

“Cold air can be conveyed from the coil in the tank 
to any number of buildings by placing the air pipe 
in the ground so as to protect it from the heat of the © 
sun. When parties have an ice house on their prem- 
ises, the coil and tank can be placed in the ice house 
so that the ice will not have to be taken out of the 
building, as air can be forced from this point just as 


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well as from the basement of a building, thus saving 
time, labor and expense. 


DIRECTIONS. 


Every morning open the bottom valve (or mud 
valve) in the sand pipe to let out the sediment that 
has accumulated. Place the ice in the tank that 
contains the coil, it will coul the air as it is passing 
through the coil, also cool the water as it passes 
through the filter. 


DISEASES Ne LOE, 


The question of diseases in ice is agitating the 
metropolis, and doctors of all schools are giving their 
opinion on the subject. Dr. S.O. Vanderpoel pub- 
lished the following statement in the Wordd : 

“Tam rather unprepared to give.an exact opinion 
on the matter without investigation and study, but 
in a general way I may say that I have no doubt on 
my mind that disease can be disseminated just as 
well by ice as by water. If Iam not mistaken, some 
time ago certain ice formed from pond water near 
Boston was suspected to have caused sickness, and 
when the ice was examined it was found to contain 
numbers of impurities. 


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I do not believe that freezing forces out foreign 
substances, and the assertion that disease germs are 
expelled cannot be stained, because these germs can- 
not be isolated’so as to be examined microscopically. 
I have no faith in freezing as a means of destroying 
animal germs, and this has, I think, been shown in 
the case of a United States man-of-war, the Plymouth, 
as well as I remember, which had become infected 
with yellow fever in the Tropics, and was sent down 
to New Hampshire and left open through an entire 
and very severe winter in order to kill the poison by 
freezing process. 

But the result was that as soon as ever the vessel 
went back to a warm climate the fever germs re- 
sumed their suspended vitality, and the disease broke 
out afresh. This instance is not an isolated one, the 
same thing has frequently occurred. [I think a dis- 
tinction should be drawn between miasma and mala- 
Tia. The first properly belongs to animal germs and 
the other to vegetable. Now these animal germs 
are effectually destroyed and eradicated when ex- 
posed to the air and is the reason why, in rivers or 
large lakes where no sewerage enters the water, the 
ice from it may be used with impunity. 

I know it is claimed that the water supply of Jer- 
sey City is pure, being drawn from the Passaic river 
at a distance from the nearset city, but doubt that 


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would be the case if it were taken near to the abode 
of a large community. I certainly should not think 
of disinfecting a vessel by cold, and I do not see that 
the formation of ice in rivers can purify the man-of- 
war I referred to.” 


PRR EY Ashi: 


To purify a room, set a pitcher of water in the 
apartment, and in a few hours it will have absorbed 
all the respired gases in the room, the air of which 
will have become purer, but the water utterly filthy. 
The colder the water is, the greater the capacity to 
retain these gases. At ordinary temperature, a pail 
of water will absorb a pint of carbonic acid gas and 
several pints of amonia. The capacity is nearly 
doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of 
ice. Hence, water kept in a room for a while is un- 
fit for use. For the same reason water from a pump 
should always be pumped out in the morning before 
any of it is used. Impure water is more injurious 
than impure air. 


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Some eastern microscopist has been examining ice 
with the most astonishing results. It was popularly 
supposed that ice, snow and cold of any kind had a 
tendency to distroy the germs of disease ; but seeing 
that small-pox propagated best in cold weather the 
learned gentleman took to examine ice, and has 
found some of it as full of things as an old cheese. 
It is most singular that nobody ever got onto ice 
before, now that one comes to think about it. It is 
weil known that the bar-keeper, when he sets out a 
tumbler, always fills it half full of pounded ice, and 
it is from this tumbler of pounded ice that the un- 
suspecting victim drinks. The trichenz in the ice 
thus enters the system and begins its deadly work; 
and it is no unusual thing for the little worms to 
grow until they become of great size, when the suf- 
ferer is obliged to take off his boots and empty them - 
out. For years people have attributed this disease 
to the whiskey, instead of the ice, but the eastern 
microscopist dispels the ignorance that has so long 
enveloped the public like a pall, and shows conclu- 
sively that the danger is in the ice. And here we 
have been abusing the ice man for leaving us so 
smali a cnunk during July and August. The man 
has undoubtedly saved our lives. 


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PRICE OF WATER COOLER AND FILTER. 


No. 1, Galvanized Iron Jacket, - - $12.00 
“25 Zinceacker : : : : 14.00 
“3, Nickel or German Silver, (extra finish,) 20.00 


Terms, per cent. off of the above list, cash 30 
days from date of invoice. All goods delivered on 
cars and packed free of charge. 

Estimates will be given for equipping Factories, 
Mills and Public Buildings with the above water 
tanks, (to be cooled by blast of air from basement as 
described in this circular) and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Give us the number of water tanks required, also 
the number of feet and inches of air pipe for the 
whole building, also state if you wish us to furnish a 
power fan, and by return mail we will Bive an esti- 
mate for the whole thing, and will superintend tie 
placing of the tanks in the building. 

Correspondence respectfully solicited. 


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REND AND CONSIDER. 


If you have any regard for the health of your- 
self, tamily or those in your employ, do not com- 
: pel them to drink unfiltered water, or water that 

is exposed to the air and gases: of the Office or 
: building, or water in which ice is placed for the 
purpose of cooling the same, as it is well known 
= that water and ice ‘will absorb all the poisonous 


| gases that a room 1 contains. 


Examine this Filter Before Purchasing 


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